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    how to use alpha to fill pdf forms

    I want devolep a database to fill a ready pdf form. how put the field that i created onto existing pdf form from irs or other tax department

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    Re: how to use alpha to fill pdf forms

    You should post this in the proper discussion, not the Announcements.

    Just went through this PDF exercise. If the existing forms are built using Adobe LiveCycle, you can't auto-fill them without building a LiveCycle process, which is difficult. If they are built with good old Acrobat, then you can auto-fill by creating an XML file in the proper format and with the proper extension (xfdf). The xfdf file only contains data, not the actual PDF, but it contains a reference to the PDF so that the proper PDF opens and is married with the data in the XFDF.

    If all that sounds strange, another method is to search for a 3rd party utilty that does this. CuteFTP rings a bell. Those programs will help you integrate your database or xml data with the PDF. But still, the data will be most effecient if you build an XML output of your database.
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

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      #3
      Re: how to use alpha to fill pdf forms

      Acrobat Reader (6.05) has a snapshot tool which lets you copy the form with its formatting to the clipboard so you can paste into a report in Alpha. Then you can place your fields over the blank areas that the pdf would have let you fill in. I did this with a W-4 form I downloaded from the IRS site. I assume it is a bitmap, so you could probably make it the background of a form too.

      Just checked - it is a bitmap.
      Robin

      Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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        Re: how to use alpha to fill pdf forms

        Robin - I'd really love to know how to do this. I tried that method for hours before giving up and even passing on the project. I could paste the image on the report and place fields where they should go. But everytime in Preview or Print, the image would either not appear, if it did appear, it was rendered about 1" x 1" square in the middle of the page.
        Steve Wood
        See my profile on IADN

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          #5
          Re: how to use alpha to fill pdf forms

          Hi Steve,

          I just tried this with an IRS PDF form and got the same results as you using Absolute for the image setting. I then tried Best Fit and works---just have to make sure the report is the same size as the form is supposed to be I imagine.
          Mike
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            #6
            Re: how to use alpha to fill pdf forms

            Originally posted by MikeC View Post
            Hi Steve,

            I just tried this with an IRS PDF form and got the same results as you using Absolute for the image setting. I then tried Best Fit and works---just have to make sure the report is the same size as the form is supposed to be I imagine.
            That's it - you got it! I have a series of Worker's Comp forms my carrier requires me to fill out so I had them send me the forms in pdf files. Filling in fillable pdf forms does not allow you save any of the default data with the form - or at least none of the ones I have gotten. Alpha makes it as easy as pushing a button. And if you wanted to make a form out of it you can hide the buttons from appearing in the printout.
            Robin

            Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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              Re: how to use alpha to fill pdf forms

              Hi Robin,
              Thanks for that idea, I tried and it looks like will work just fine to print a fairly simple PDF form.
              Edhy Rijo
              Progytech
              (Computer Consultants)
              The makers of CardTracking.Net
              www.progytech.com

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